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21 produkter
Irony and the Logic of Modernity
Inbunden, 2015
1569 kr
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The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g. in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the dandy. It fully develops in the novel, …
Science of Literature
Essays on an Incalculable Difference
Inbunden, 2015
1569 kr
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One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying …
Fact and Fiction
Elements of a General Theory of Narrative
Av Albrecht Koschorke, Joel Golb
Inbunden, 2018
1712 kr
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How can we develop a cultural theory starting with the basic insight that human beings are "storytelling animals"? Within literary studies, narratology is a highly developed field. However, literary historians have not paid much attention to the large and small stories abounding in everyday …
Ends of Satire
Legacies of Satire in Postwar German Writing
Inbunden, 2015
1727 kr
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Art of Dreams
Reflections and Representations
Inbunden, 2016
1373 kr
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We all dream; we all share these strange experiences that infuse our nights. But we only know of those nightly adventures when we decide to represent them. In the long history of coming to terms with dreams there seem to be two different ways of delineating our forays into the world of the …
Productive Digression
Theorizing Practice
Inbunden, 2017
1727 kr
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Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are ‘digressive’ in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in various respects. Mostly, …
Narratology of Observation
Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism
Inbunden, 2018
1712 kr
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How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual …
Bureaucratic Fanatics
Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization
Inbunden, 2019
1712 kr
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Is justice only achievable by means of bureaucratization or might it first arrive with the end of bureaucracy? Bureaucratic Fanatics shows how this ever more contentious question in contemporary politics belongs to the political-theological underpinnings of bureaucratization itself. At the end of …
Sea Fortune
Literature and Navigation
Inbunden, 2020
1498 kr
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Sea fortune has always been an issue of good faith and good navigation. While in antiquity, fortuna gubernatrix was praised for shielding the seaborne trade, in the Renaissance fortuna symbolized the conquest of chance and danger. Under such auspices, while relying on risk technologies modern …
Facing Poetry
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature
Av Frauke Berndt, Anthony Mahler
Inbunden, 2020
1465 kr
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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) is known in intellectual history for having established the discourse of philosophical aesthetics with his "Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus" (Reflections on Poetry) and "Aesthetica" (Aesthetics), which consists of two books …
Arts of Connection
Poetry, History, Epochality
Inbunden, 2019
1542 kr
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At the intersection of literary theory, philosophy of history and phenomenology, Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality explores the representation of connections between events in literary, historical and philosophical narratives. Events in a story can be seen as ordered according to …
By Hand
Writing Hands and Making Genders in German Culture
Inbunden, 2026
1832 kr
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By Hand investigates the persistent absence of female hands from the story of the human hand. Mediating between mind and body, self and world, the hand has long been invested with the power to classify and organize bodies as human or non-human. This project argues that hands are also central to …
Ends of Satire
Legacies of Satire in Postwar German Writing
Häftad, 2019
383 kr
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How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This study proposes a novel solution, understanding the satiric in the postwar era as a set of writing practices: figures of inversion, myth-making, and citation. By showing how writers and theorists alike deploy these …
Restorative Poetics of a Geological Age
Stifter, Viollet-le-Duc, and the Aesthetic Practices of Geohistoricism
Inbunden, 2020
1753 kr
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This book examines two mid-nineteenth century thinkers – the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter and the French architect Eugène E. Viollet-le-Duc – who imagined cultural history on the model of earth history: as a history of objects to be restored and worlds to be reconstructed. The nascent field of …
Primitive Thinking
Figuring Alterity in German Modernity
Av Nicola Gess
Inbunden, 2022
1612 kr
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This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and Robert Müller, focusing on three …
Bureaucratic Fanatics
Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization
Häftad, 2020
391 kr
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Is justice only achievable by means of bureaucratization or might it first arrive with the end of bureaucracy? Bureaucratic Fanatics shows how this ever more contentious question in contemporary politics belongs to the political-theological underpinnings of bureaucratization itself. At the end of …
Making an Entrance
Appearing on the Stage from Racine to Nietzsche
Inbunden, 2022
1605 kr
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How does the entrance of a character on the tragic stage affect their visibility and presence? Beginning with the court culture of the seventeenth century and ending with Nietzsche’s Dionysian theater, this monograph explores specific modes of entering the stage and the conditions that make them …
Arts of Connection
Poetry, History, Epochality
Häftad, 2021
344 kr
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At the intersection of literary theory, philosophy of history and phenomenology, Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality explores the representation of connections between events in literary, historical and philosophical narratives. Events in a story can be seen as ordered according to …
Truth in Serial Form
Serial Formats and the Form of the Series, 1850–1930
Inbunden, 2023
1444 kr
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This volume has its starting point in the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing, beginning in the mid nineteenth century and the well-known fascination with series in biology, mathematics, music, art, or literature. The new media culture …
Manipulations
Hands at Work in European Modernism
Av Regina Karl
Inbunden, 2025
1624 kr
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To what extent does the production of art require the work of hands? And, reciprocally, to what extent does an artwork enable a tactile understanding of the world? At the beginning of the twentieth century, the meaning of hands goes beyond the simple gestures they perform: they become an agent, …
Primitive Thinking
Figuring Alterity in German Modernity
Av Nicola Gess
Häftad, 2024
361 kr
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This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and Robert Müller, focusing on three …
